Federal land managers gave their final approval Thursday for a massive lithium-boron mine in Southern Nevada, becoming the first domestic lithium project to get full regulatory approval under the Biden Administration.

The US government has approved the construction of a massive new lithium mine in Nevada as part of a strategy to break China’s dominance over the supply chain of critical minerals used in EVs.

The mining project can quadruple the United States' lithium supply — but conservationists say it may also drive the endangered Tiehm's buckwheat to extinction.